Open jhpoelen opened 7 years ago
As I was looking into integrating GloBI with Catalog of Life (CoL, https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/286), I noticed that taxon ids provided by http://resolver.globalnames.org for CoL are not stable across CoL releases.
For example: resolving Homo sapiens with http://resolver.globalnames.org gives results include CoL match with gni-uuid 7db4f8a2-aafe-56b6-8838-89522c67d9f0 and taxon id 21940882. After inspecting latest CoL release (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/DCA_Export/zip-fixed/2017-03-22-archive-complete.zip) I found that the id does not appear. However, in the CoL 2016 Annual edition (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/DCA_Export/zip-fixed/2016-annual.zip), the id does appear and links to Homo sapiens.
I'd like to suggest to use stable name (uu)ids instead, so that linking with CoL resources become a little easier.
Hope this helps.
As I was looking into integrating GloBI with Catalog of Life (CoL, https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/286), I noticed that taxon ids provided by http://resolver.globalnames.org for CoL are not stable across CoL releases.
For example: resolving Homo sapiens with http://resolver.globalnames.org gives results include CoL match with gni-uuid 7db4f8a2-aafe-56b6-8838-89522c67d9f0 and taxon id 21940882. After inspecting latest CoL release (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/DCA_Export/zip-fixed/2017-03-22-archive-complete.zip) I found that the id does not appear. However, in the CoL 2016 Annual edition (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/DCA_Export/zip-fixed/2016-annual.zip), the id does appear and links to Homo sapiens.
I'd like to suggest to use stable name (uu)ids instead, so that linking with CoL resources become a little easier.
Hope this helps.